Is being a night owl bad for your health?

from Amazon.com

Night owls may have a higher risk of suffering from heart disease and type 2 diabetes than early risers.

In the first ever international review of studies analyzing whether being an early riser or a night owl can influence your health, researchers have uncovered a growing body of evidence indicating an increased risk of ill health in people with an evening preference as they have more erratic eating patterns and consume more unhealthy foods.

Researchers develop sugar-powered sensor to detect and prevent disease

(c) WSU

Researchers at Washington State University have developed an implantable, biofuel-powered sensor that runs on sugar and can monitor a body’s biological signals to detect, prevent and diagnose diseases.

Diabetes may be a group of five different diseases

(c) CDC

A new analysis published in The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology indicates researchers were able to distinguish 5 new subgroups of patients with adult-onset diabetes, representing a first step toward precision medicine for the roughly 415 million patients with the chronic condition.

Removable Drug Delivery Implant based on a Spider's Web to control Type 1 Diabetes

(c) Cornell Univ

For the more than 1 million Americans who live with type 1 diabetes, daily insulin injections are literally a matter of life and death. And while there is no cure, a Cornell-led research team has developed a device that could revolutionize management of the disease.